Rising temperatures, melting ice, extreme weather and rising sea levels are probably the first things that pop into your head when you hear “climate change.” Climate change, however, has some other, less known effects.

Think back to every diet, home exercise or gym membership commercial you have ever seen. They all tend to focus on one thing: burning fat. And as they do, they show pictures of legs, waists, midsections and all the other places people know and see that we build fat when we take in more calories than we burn.